2 Baruch

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INTRODUCTION 2 BARUCH. 1 BaRUcH. 1. 1. 15/3. χ τά. IV; Τὸς 14. lix. 7. iii. 12. Ixxvii. το. ii. 26. Ixxviii. 7. iv. 36, 37 (v. 6, 7). Ixxix. 2. ᾿ χ7, 18. Ιχχχ. 5. WEeXs: Ixxxiv. 2-5. LEGS ke 2. Ixxxvi. I, 2. δ τῆ; 2° 2 Baruch or the present Apocalypse. 3° 3 Baruch or the Greek Apocalypse—a work of the second century, which is dealt with fully in its proper place in this volume. On some points of connexion between this and the preceding work see my Commentary on The Apocalypse of Baruch, pp. xxi. sq. 4° 4 Baruch or the Rest of the Words.of Baruch. The book was written in Greek in the second century of our era. It is in part a Jewish work recast. The Greek text was first printed at Venice in 1609, next by Ceriani in 1868 under the title ‘ Paralipomena Jeremiae’ in his Won. Sacr.v. 11-18, and has been critically edited by Rendel Harris in 1889. This book exists also in the Ethiopic Bible, and was edited from three MSS. by Dillmann in his Chrestomathia aethiopica in 1886. But as these MSS. are inferior, a new edition is needed, which will take account of the Greek MSS. as well as of the Ethiopic—there are eight still uncollated of the latter in the British Museum—and also of the Jewish matter underlying the book. 5° A Gnostic Book of Baruch is drawn upon in Hippolytus’ Phzlosophumena, v. 24-7. 6° A Latin Book of Baruch is quoted in an MS. of Cyprian’s Testimonia, iii. 29, which is clearly based on our Apocalypse. 7° Another Book of Baruch is mentioned in the Altercatio Simonis Ludaei et Theophili Christiani, published by Harnack (Terte und Untersuchungen, Bd. I, Heft 3, 1883), but so far as the quotation goes, this book has no connexion with our Apocalypse. §3. THE Syriac MSS. For chapters i-Ixxvii we have only one MS. This MS.—designated ¢ in my edition—was found in the library in Milan. It belongs to the sixth century. In 1871 Ceriani edited the Syriac text from the MS. in his Won. Sacr. εὐ Prof. V. ii. 113-80. Of chapters Ixxviii-lxxxvi, which form the Epistle of Baruch, many MSS. were known to exist, and three of them, a, 4, d, were collated by Ceriani. In 1871 Fritzsche attempted to form a text on the basis of these four MSS. through the medium of an emended edition of Ceriani’s Latin translation in his Librz Apocryphi V. T. Graece, 1871, pp. 690-9. The present writer edited the Syriac text of these chapters in his edition of the Apocalypse of Baruch, 1896, in which he made use of the following MSS. Called A in Ceriani. See p. 167 note. Add. 17105 Brit. Mus., ff. 116-1218. Sixth century. Milan MS., ff. 265-267». Sixth century. Cod. Ambrosianus A 145. No. 1 Syr. MSS., Bodley, ff. 430-432. A.D. 1627. Egerton 705, Brit. Mus., ff. 3739-374". Seventeenth century. Add. 12172 Brit. Mus., ff. 192¥-195>, Tenth or Twelfth century. Add. 18715 Brit. Mus., ff. 242>-244%. Twelfth century. No. 2 Syr. MSS., Bodley, ff. 492-493. A.D. 1614. No. 20 Syr. MSS., Bodley, ff. 37-38. Of these ten befghik were collated directly by the present writer. In addition to these he found excerpts from the Epistle in 7 = Add.12178, Brit. Mus., f. 111° (ninth or tenth century), in 772 = 14482 Brit. Mus., ff. 47°-48* (eleventh or twelfth century), and in 2, 14684 Brit. Mus., f. 24 (twefth century). Finally the readings of the Walton and Paris Polyglots were taken account of. As a result of a critical study of these authorities I arrived at certain definite results. Thus while c represents one type of text,abdefghiklmn represent another—say a. The latter again fall into two classes abg¢ hk (=) being more trustworthy than defi(=y). The originals of these three classes, a, 8, y, have been lost, but they are helpful in showing the interrelations of our authorities. — results finally arrived at (see my edition, pp. xxii-xxx) can best be represented in the following table : Wr VARA SA 471